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Darker (Solo Live)

from The Mother Back To Strong Down by Gavin Burgess

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Strong:
Three songs from an acoustic solo performance at Blue Note in 2002. The lead guitar on Ancient Love was added later at Sasquatch. Darker is a track from an already written but as yet unrealised album project of the same name. Those with keen ears will be able to discern the background conversation between myself and a very drunk member of the audience who was determined to join me on stage.

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I don't need bitter sweet memories of better times.
I don't need buried guilt for yesterday's crimes.
I don't need another betrayal, lest my darkness steals another inch of me.
Dirty secrets buried deep, in sleep they rise, in dreams I flee.

Now the light is a little darker,
and the sun is a little lower,
and life is a little shorter,
like breath.

One day it may happen that my demons and I make our peace,
But for now they scratch at the door and twitter in my ear.
Through the cracks around the windows their soiled claws appear.
Now that my body is grown older no-one comes to lullaby my childish fears.

Now the light is a little darker,
And the sun is a little lower,
And life is a little shorter,
And my blood is a little colder,
And the night is a little longer,
And the son hangs a little lower,
And life is a little shorter,
Like breath.

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from The Mother Back To Strong Down, released December 11, 2012
Guitars & Vocals: Gavin Burgess. Compere: Andrew Vinsen. Recorded to Minidisc by Andrew Vinsen. Overdubs and fixes at Sasquatch Studio, 2006. Mixed at Sasquatch by Gavin Burgess.

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Gavin Burgess New Zealand

Gavin Burgess is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, studio engineer and producer who divides his time between his home in Thailand and his native New Zealand. He has performed and released music with bands including ‘Top Secret’, ‘The Gavin Burgess Band’, and as a solo artist. He records and releases through his own independent ‘Gavland’ label. ... more

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